Elnaark no Zaihou aka one of the top 5 worst Famicom games of all time. A Zelda clone so bad and virtually impossible that literally nobody finished it until 2000, thirteen years after it was released. Published by Towachiki and the actual dev is not credited likely because they were too ashamed of it.
>>12500612I get the feeling that a lot of this shovelware would have been home computer games in the West but Japan didn't have so many of those.
Ah I was looking for the name of this game a few months ago. It's presumably the only FC game which can't be beaten without a glitch/exploit. But with a name like that, I'm sure to forget it again.
NES shovelware are the best shovelware of any consolesShort games,very hard so kind of rewarding,very arcadey type games
>>12500646it was not a bug apparently but a mistake in the manual. there was a hidden wall or something you had to go through or the level would just loop endlessly. you can beat the game in an hour if you know what to do but the puzzles are unbelievably obtuse and there were no proper strategy guides in 1987.
The dungeons in this game are absolutely huge and the potions that refill your life do not respawn; once they're used, that's it so be very very careful about using them or you could put yourself in an unwinnable condition.
https://w.atwiki.jp/famicomall/pages/486.htmlThey explain here that the game being "unbeatable" was due to the manual giving incorrect information rather than a bug.
>>12500612Towachiki's games usually did have uncredited devs because of their atrocious quality, only exception was the ones Natsume did which are actually good. Most likely done by student programmers; Elnaark no Zaihou certainly feels like a student programming project rather than a game made by professionals.
>>12500612this stands as proof that the games we got in the West were mostly the cream of the library (well, unless it was Micronics) and we never saw the mountains of shitty Famicom games.
waiting for Famicom RPG guy to give us the skinny on this piece of crap
>>12500612Towachiki also made three Sherlock Holmes adventure games (again no credited developer) that are horrible to play.
>>12501067The first Sherlock Holmes game is one of the worst Famicom games of all time and it appears to be by the same team that did Elnaark no Zaihou.
>>12500708Look beyond the japanese shills and you'll realise they got equally as shitty if not more shitty games then we in the west did
>>12501067Also the first one isn't an adventure game, it's a...side scroller, I'll leave it at that. I'm not actually asking you to play it and find out for yourself, that would be cruel of me.
>>12500615The computer gaming market was largely replaced by the Famicom, and it was cheap to make games for it. So, yes.>>12501292Even shit like this is leagues better than the best Western games.
>>12501349>Even shit like this is leagues better than the best Western games.t. has never actually played Sherlock Holmes: Hakushaku Reijou Yuukai Jiken or Super Monkey Daibouken
>>12501353We had this discussion in the last thread: I literally own Super Monkey Daibouken, and it's better than any Western slop. The only good "Western" games are ones that were completely remade by Japanese devs like Spelunker and Wizardry.
>>12501349>>12501358YWNBJ
>>12501359IALJYSF
>>12501359You don't have to be Japanese to recognize a bad game. American games were so bad that they literally destroyed the entire industry in their country and had to be saved by Japanese companies.
>>12501361>japanese on a western imageboard instead of somewhere like 2chanyou don't fool me, larper.
>>12501353Also in Japan those are both infamous and despised kusoge.
>>12501368>The American brain can't comprehend bilingualism
>>12501380>everyone who mocks me is Americanthat's how I know you're not japanese, i'm not sure why pretending to be someone you're not is the norm these days.
>>12501383Your lies don't work on me, faggot
>>12501349>The computer gaming market was largely replaced by the FamicomThere was still the PC-88/98 for games that specifically needed computer features like hi res graphics, a keyboard, and lots of rewritable RAM.
>>12501394Like I said: the computer gaming market was largely replaced by the Famicom.
>>12500681they're mostly empty too, hardly anything in them
>>12500612The A Week of Garfield dev is listed just as "Mars Corp." but it looks very much like Superman and was probably the same guys.
>>12501358Bane of the Cosmic Forge is one of the best RPGs ever made and you can suck my dick.
>>12501616suck your own dick, faggot
>>12501358NES Spelunker is not better than the Atari/C64 original and Wizardry was nerfed to be more kid-friendly.
>>12501359YWNRT80s, you twat.
>>12501365As with most of nu/vr/ (and auster spam), it's really just american insecurity all over the place.
